| hiccough | (noun) (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion | Synonyms: hiccup, singultus |
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| hierarch | (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: archpriest, high priest, prelate, primate |
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| (noun) a person who holds a high position in a hierarchy | - |
| hieroglyph | (noun) a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt | Synonyms: hieroglyphic |
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| (noun) writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible) | Synonyms: hieroglyphic |
| high | (noun) a forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest vehicle velocity for a given engine speed | Synonyms: high gear |
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| (noun) a lofty level or position or degree | - |
| (noun) a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12 | Synonyms: high school, highschool, senior high, senior high school |
| (noun) a high place | Synonyms: heights |
| (noun) an air mass of higher than normal pressure | - |
| (noun) a state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or narcotics | - |
| (noun) a state of sustained elation | - |
| hitch | (noun) the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg | Synonyms: hobble, limp |
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| (noun) a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot | - |
| (noun) a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls | - |
| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive |
| (noun) an unforeseen obstacle | Synonyms: hang-up, rub, snag |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, stay, stop, stoppage |
| (noun) a period of time spent in military service | Synonyms: duty tour, enlistment, term of enlistment, tour, tour of duty |
| hogfish | (noun) found from Long Island southward | Synonyms: Orthopristis chrysopterus, pigfish |
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| (noun) large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout | Synonyms: hog snapper, Lachnolaimus maximus |
| hogwash | (noun) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | Synonyms: buncombe, bunk, bunkum, guff, rot |
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| holograph | (noun) the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography | Synonyms: hologram |
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| (noun) handwritten book or document | Synonyms: manuscript |
| homeopath | (noun) a practitioner of homeopathy | Synonyms: homoeopath |
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| homestretch | (noun) the straight stretch of a racetrack leading to the finish line | - |
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| (noun) the end of an enterprise | - |
| homoeopath | (noun) a practitioner of homeopathy | Synonyms: homeopath |
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| homograph | (noun) two words are homographs if they are spelled the same way but differ in meaning (e.g. fair) | - |
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| hooch | (noun) an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor | Synonyms: hootch |
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| hookah | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| hootch | (noun) an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor | Synonyms: hooch |
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| hopscotch | (noun) a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone | - |
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| horsecloth | (noun) a cloth for the trapping of a horse | - |
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| horsefish | (noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish, horse-head, horsehead, moonfish, Selene setapinnis |
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| horseflesh | (noun) the flesh of horses as food | Synonyms: horsemeat |
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| horselaugh | (noun) a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing | Synonyms: ha-ha, haw-haw, hee-haw |
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| horseleech | (noun) any of several large freshwater leeches | - |
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| horseradish | (noun) grated horseradish root | - |
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| (noun) coarse Eurasian plant cultivated for its thick white pungent root | Synonyms: Armoracia rusticana, horse radish, red cole |
| (noun) the root of the horseradish plant; it is grated or ground and used for seasoning | Synonyms: horseradish root |
| hotchpotch | (noun) a stew (or thick soup) made with meat and vegetables | - |
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| (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
| houdah | (noun) a (usually canopied) seat for riding on the back of a camel or elephant | Synonyms: howdah |
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| howdah | (noun) a (usually canopied) seat for riding on the back of a camel or elephant | Synonyms: houdah |
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| hunch | (noun) the act of bending yourself into a humped position | - |
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| (noun) an impression that something might be the case | Synonyms: intuition, suspicion |
| hundredth | (noun) one part in a hundred equal parts | Synonyms: one-hundredth, one percent |
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| (noun) position 100 in a countable series of things | - |
| hurrah | (noun) a victory cheer | Synonyms: hooray |
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| hush | (noun) (poetic) tranquil silence | Synonyms: still, stillness |
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| hutch | (noun) a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals | - |
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| (noun) small crude shelter used as a dwelling | Synonyms: hovel, hut, shack, shanty |
| hutzpah | (noun) (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity | Synonyms: chutzpa, chutzpah |
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| hyacinth | (noun) any of numerous bulbous perennial herbs | - |
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| (noun) a red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone | Synonyms: jacinth |
| hydrolith | (noun) a saltlike binary compound (CaH2) used as a reducing agent and source of hydrogen | Synonyms: calcium hydride |
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| ideograph | (noun) a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it | Synonyms: ideogram |
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| inch | (noun) a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot | Synonyms: in |
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| (noun) a unit of measurement for advertising space | Synonyms: column inch |
| ingrowth | (noun) something that grows inward | - |
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| inrush | (noun) an inflow | Synonyms: inpour, inpouring |
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| intifadah | (noun) an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000 | Synonyms: intifada |
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| isopleth | (noun) a line drawn on a map connecting points having the same numerical value of some variable | Synonyms: isarithm, isogram |
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| isotach | (noun) a line joining points with constant wind speed. | - |
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| itch | (noun) an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch | Synonyms: itchiness, itching |
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| (noun) a strong restless desire | Synonyms: urge |
| (noun) a contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation | Synonyms: scabies |
| jacinth | (noun) a red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone | Synonyms: hyacinth |
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| jawfish | (noun) small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms; males brood egg balls in their mouths; popular aquarium fishes | - |
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| jellyfish | (noun) any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans | - |
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| (noun) large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles | Synonyms: man-of-war, Portuguese man-of-war |
| jewfish | (noun) large dark grouper with a thick head and rough scales | Synonyms: Mycteroperca bonaci |
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| (noun) large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre | Synonyms: mulloway, Sciaena antarctica |
| jonah | (noun) a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him | Synonyms: jinx |
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| kabbalah | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbala, cabbalah, kabala, kabbala, qabala, qabalah |
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| kaffiyeh | (noun) an Arab headdress consisting of a square piece of cloth folded into a triangle and fastened over the crown by an agal | - |
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| kaliph | (noun) the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | Synonyms: calif, caliph, kalif, khalif, khalifah |
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| kaph | (noun) the 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| karyolymph | (noun) a clear liquid in the cell nucleus in which the nucleolus and chromatin and other structures are dispersed | - |
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| kasbah | (noun) an older or native quarter of many cities in northern Africa; the quarter in which the citadel is located | Synonyms: casbah |
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| ketch | (noun) a sailing vessel with two masts; the mizzen is forward of the rudderpost | - |
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| khalifah | (noun) the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | Synonyms: calif, caliph, kalif, kaliph, khalif |
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| killifish | (noun) small mostly marine warm-water carp-like schooling fishes; used as bait or aquarium fishes or in mosquito control | - |
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| kingfish | (noun) any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast | - |
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| (noun) large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters | Synonyms: cero, pintado, Scomberomorus regalis |
| (noun) small silvery marine food fish found off California | Synonyms: chenfish, Genyonemus lineatus, white croaker |
| (noun) large game fish of Australia and New Zealand | Synonyms: Seriola grandis |
| (noun) the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States | - |
| kirsch | (noun) from fermented juice of black morello cherries | - |
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| kith | (noun) your friends and acquaintances | - |
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| kitsch | (noun) excessively garish or sentimental art; usually considered in bad taste | - |
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| knish | (noun) (Yiddish) a baked or fried turnover filled with potato or meat or cheese; often eaten as a snack | - |
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| kph | (noun) the ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours) | Synonyms: kilometers per hour, kilometres per hour, km/h |
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| kutch | (noun) tannin extract derived from any of several mangrove barks of Pacific areas | Synonyms: cutch |
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| kvetch | (noun) (Yiddish) a nagging complaint | - |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a constant complainer | - |
| kymograph | (noun) scientific instrument consisting of a rotating drum holding paper on which a stylus traces a continuous record (as of breathing or blood pressure) | Synonyms: cymograph |
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| labyrinth | (noun) complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost | Synonyms: maze |
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| (noun) a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium | Synonyms: inner ear, internal ear |
| ladyfish | (noun) game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller | Synonyms: Elops saurus, tenpounder |
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| lagomorph | (noun) relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing | Synonyms: gnawing mammal |
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| lah | (noun) the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization | Synonyms: la |
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| lakh | (noun) the cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten | Synonyms: 100000, hundred thousand |
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| lamedh | (noun) the 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| lamellibranch | (noun) marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Synonyms: bivalve, pelecypod |
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| lancetfish | (noun) large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail | Synonyms: lancet fish, wolffish |
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| lanseh | (noun) East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit | Synonyms: lansa, lansat, lanset |
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| lanternfish | (noun) small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night | - |
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| larch | (noun) any of numerous conifers of the genus Larix all having deciduous needlelike leaves | Synonyms: larch tree |
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| (noun) wood of a larch tree | - |
| largemouth | (noun) a large black bass; the angle of the jaw falls behind the eye | Synonyms: largemouth bass, largemouth black bass, largemouthed bass, largemouthed black bass, Micropterus salmoides |
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| lash | (noun) a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object | Synonyms: whip, whiplash |
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| (noun) leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip | Synonyms: thong |
| (noun) any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids | Synonyms: cilium, eyelash |
| latch | (noun) catch for fastening a door or gate; a bar that can be lowered or slid into a groove | - |
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| (noun) spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key | Synonyms: door latch |
| lath | (noun) a narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework | - |
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| laugh | (noun) the sound of laughing | Synonyms: laughter |
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| (noun) a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter | Synonyms: gag, jape, jest, joke |
| (noun) a facial expression characteristic of a person laughing | - |
| launch | (noun) the act of propelling with force | Synonyms: launching |
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| (noun) a motorboat with an open deck or a half deck | - |
| lawyerbush | (noun) stout-stemmed trailing shrub of New Zealand that scrambles over other growth | Synonyms: bush lawyer, lawyer bush, Rubus australis, Rubus cissoides |
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| leach | (noun) the process of leaching | Synonyms: leaching |
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| leash | (noun) a figurative restraint | Synonyms: collar |
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| (noun) restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal | Synonyms: lead, tether |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| leatherfish | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| lech | (noun) man with strong sexual desires | Synonyms: lecher, letch, satyr |
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| leech | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: bloodsucker, hirudinean |
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| (noun) a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage | Synonyms: parasite, sponge, sponger |
| length | (noun) a section of something that is long and narrow | - |
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| (noun) the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place | - |
| (noun) continuance in time | Synonyms: duration |
| (noun) the property of being the extent of something from beginning to end | - |
| (noun) size of the gap between two places | Synonyms: distance |
| letch | (noun) man with strong sexual desires | Synonyms: lech, lecher, satyr |
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| liebfraumilch | (noun) a sweetened Rhenish wine (especially one from Hesse in western Germany) | - |
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| lionfish | (noun) brightly striped fish of the tropical Pacific having elongated spiny fins | - |
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| lithograph | (noun) duplicator that prints by lithography; a flat surface (of stone or metal) is treated to absorb or repel ink in the desired pattern | Synonyms: lithograph machine |
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| (noun) a print produced by lithography | - |
| lizardfish | (noun) tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide | Synonyms: snake-fish, snakefish |
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| loach | (noun) slender freshwater fishes of Eurasia and Africa resembling catfishes | - |
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| loch | (noun) Scottish word for a lake | - |
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| (noun) a long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked) | - |
| locksmith | (noun) someone who makes or repairs locks | - |
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| lockstitch | (noun) machine stitch in which the top thread interlocks with the bobbin thread | - |
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| logograph | (noun) a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation | Synonyms: logogram |
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| logomach | (noun) someone given to disputes over words | Synonyms: logomachist |
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| loincloth | (noun) a garment that provides covering for the loins | Synonyms: breechcloth, breechclout |
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